Favorite Quotes

[OldBroad44]

Out of the night that covers me
Back as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
for my unconquerable soul.

First verse of Invictus, by Henley..

 

[OldBroad44]

When the Cambrian measures were forming, they promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed they sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'Stick to the Devil you know.'

From "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" Kipling.

 

[OldBroad44]

Tis The Gift To Be Simple, 'Tis The Gift To Be Free
'Tis The Gift To Come Down Where You Ought To Be
And When We Find Ourselves In The Place Just Right
'Twill Be In The Valley Of Love And Delight.

When True Simplicity Is Gained
To Bow And To Bend We Shan't Be Ashamed
To Turn, Turn Will Be Our Delight
'Till By Turning, Turning We Come Round Right.

'Tis The Gift To Be Simple, 'Tis The Gift To Be Free
'Tis The Gift To Come Down Where You Ought To Be
And When We Find Ourselves In The Place Just Right
'Twill Be In The Valley Of Love And Delight.

Elder Joseph Bracket
Shaker hymn

 

[OldBroad44]

When Harvard Biology Prof John R. Raper thought a grad student's conclusions from his data were less than compelling he would say "You heard the story about the two colonists talking about Indians? One asks 'Do Indians always walk in single file?' The other replies, 'Yes. That must be true. I only saw one but he was.'"

 

[OldBroad44]

You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealing's done

chorus from The Gambler, Kenny Rogers. Correction: Don Schlitz

 

[Provincial]

"One of the reasons, among many reasons, the government hates old people is because old people can remember and tell younger people what government has done."

– Longwalkhome

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

IT IS CUSTOMARY IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES TO DEPLORE EXPENDITURES ON ARMAMENTS AS CONFLICTING WITH REQUIREMENTS OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES.
HOWEVER, THERE IS A TENDENCY TO FORGET THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIAL SERVICE THAT A GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR ITS PEOPLE IS TO KEEP THEM ALIVE AND FREE.


SIR JOHN SLESSOR ,
MARSHALL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

QUALITY IS LIKE OATS;

IF YOU WANT NICE, CLEAN, FRESH OATS

YOU MUST PAY A FAIR PRICE;

HOWEVER, IF YOU CAN BE SATISFIED WITH OATS

THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN THROUGH THE HORSE,

THAT COMES A BIT CHEAPER.

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart; if you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain".

Winston Churchill

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

You got to know when to hold 'em . . .

chorus from The Gambler, Kenny Rogers

Credit the artist who wrote it, Don Schlitz, not the jack_ _ _ who sang it. And yes, I've worked with Rogers, and he was a major jack _ _ _.

 

[bradsteen]

What do I care for the law? Ain't I got the power?
- Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

[Provincial]

You get more bang for your buck by taking criminals off the streets than by taking guns off the streets.

-me

 

[Mikej]

"Always Smell It First"

Author unknown.

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

The difference between Liberals and Conservatives: Liberals think we should be equal at the FINISH Line = EQUITY. Conservatives think we should be equal at the START Line = EQUALITY.

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."

Thomas Sowell

"And, the problem with the difference between thinking and feeling is that when asked to be analytical, little Johnny perceives that to have something to do with his butt."

HooYah's Addendum

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world.

Then he made the earth round. . .

and laughed and laughed and laughed.

 

[Rickenbacher39]

A rolling stone gathers momentum.
- Mad Magazine

 

[GI JEW 555]

"The man who works with a stick is going to defeat the man who plays with a sword" — John Simpson

"If you can't handle me at my worse than you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best" — Marilyn Monroe

"Every book you pickup has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones." — Stephen King

"And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real" —Thomas Harris

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

"And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real" —Thomas Harris

Scars are like tattoos, but with much better stories.

 

[OldBroad44]

" I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e]​ last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
Winston Churchill, as Britain prepared to hold off the Nazis alone in WWII.